We woke up this morning in a clear and cold morning. Early in the morning on the farm is quiet, the horses quietly stand around waiting for the round-up to have breakfast. Breakfast time at Blue Star is one of my favorite times. You check in with the horses, serve them breakfast, give them their particular attending too...depending on the horse.
Every horse has their own personality, individuality, and real ability to communicate what they need. Those of us that live on the farm are humbled everyday by just how intelligent and engaged they are with us and their environment. They have good days and bad days. Some of them are in pain, each deals with it differently. Some are young, some are very old, some are handicapped by different syndromes familiar to their kind. We have a lot of drafts, a couple of throughbreds, an applaloosa, a mini, a baby Morgan, a young untrained Shire, two former scared and scattered Percherons now brave and bold and beautiful. We are always full at Blue Star....the 3 spots that just opened were immediately filled with more mares in need. More horses to love and know and care for.
We learn from all of them. We are trying to get better at describing just what they can do for us, at what they have already done for those of us caring for them now..on and off the farm.
Today we had a special guest that has made it a mission in her life to help horses and humans restore their bond. Their rightful, respectful, trusting, loving relationship with each other. With her experience and lifetime of observation and determination she has found a way to describe the very magical and mysterious knowing that is born when we enter into a honest and sincere relationship with a horse. She even has charts!
Nicole Birkholzer creator of Mindful-Connections did a workshop at BSE today on recovering the spirit of the horse. Taking a different, more sensitive approach at understanding and working with horses. I think Nicole is amazing. Not because she is my friend, but because she is one of the most dynamic, open, loving and compassionate people I have ever met. Her husband is very much like her, open and wonderful and very much in love with the horses in his life, and great respect for those that are not.
We filmed her workshop and have decided to break it into 5 installments. It is all wonderful information, articulated beautifully. I find it very hard to describe the "unseen" spiritual relationship I have with the horses. She has a whole language for it.
This gives us a whole week of very deep things to think about. Nicole will be holding another workshop on Feb. 5. It is filling up so get your space now if you are interested.
Nicole' s website...http://www.mindful-connections.com/
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